Chicago crime — May 2026
3,284 reported incidents · 458 arrests recorded in this sample.
LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 2,004 Chicago Police Department incidents whose report date falls in May 2026 (2026-05). That monthly slice is a city-wide count from the CPD public incident feed via the city's open-data portal, not a neighborhood subtotal and not a conviction tally. Rows are police reports as published. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges.
Key figures
- 2,004 Chicago CPD incidents in this index have a report date in May 2026.
- The slice is city-wide and includes all IUCR primary types.
- Report date can differ from occurrence date; this packet totals report date.
- Counts are police reports, not convictions.
What the May 2026 slice contains
The 2,004 figure is every indexed CPD incident with a report date in May 2026, across all IUCR primary types. It is not limited to violent crime, not limited to downtown, and not limited to incidents that produced an arrest. A theft row and a homicide row each count as one. The month page is a time filter on the Chicago extract, not a new classification system.
Report date is the field this slice uses. Occurrence date, when it differs, can fall outside May even if the report was taken in May, or the reverse, depending on how CPD filled the source columns. Read the table headers. This narrative does not invent a split between report date and occurrence date because that split is not in the packet facts.
City-wide, not a community area total
May 2026 is a Chicago city-wide monthly cut. Official community area names appear on rows when CPD published them; the 2,004 total does not belong to one area. Summing a few areas from the table will not equal 2,004 if some rows lack geography or if you filtered the table.
Block-level locations are coarse by design. They are not street-number addresses of victims or accused persons. Treat the map as public-record geography, not a household list.
Full neighborhood guide: Chicago police reports — May 2026 →
Questions
- How many Chicago police reports are indexed for May 2026?
- LocalCrimeVault currently indexes 2,004 CPD incidents with a report date in May 2026. The source is Chicago Police Department incidents on the city open-data portal. The figure counts police reports, not convictions or unique people. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. The 2,004 total can move in a later harvest of the same May report dates.
- Is the May 2026 count limited to one crime type?
- No. The 2,004 total includes every IUCR primary type in the monthly slice: property, person, and public-order reports as CPD labeled them. Filter the table if you need a single type. The month page is a date filter, not a type filter. Filter the 2,004-row table for a single IUCR type; the headline is the mix.
- Does report date mean the crime happened in May 2026?
- Not always. This slice uses report date in May 2026 (2026-05). Occurrence date can differ. Read the table columns CPD published. This packet does not include a separate occurrence-date total. Quote 2,004 as the report-date monthly count LocalCrimeVault indexed. Quote 2,004 as report-date volume for 2026-05, not as occurrence-date volume.
- Does a May 2026 incident mean a conviction?
- No. Public incident rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest or after charges change. The 2,004 count is monthly report volume. Court outcomes live in other systems. Block-level maps are not identifications of residents. The 2,004 count is monthly report volume from CPD open data, not court outcomes.
Monthly counts are CPD incidents with a report date in that month, via LocalCrimeVault.